
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights awarded 20,000 euros Nizhny Novgorod Nikita Danishkin, known for its critical comments on the Internet to the authorities. In December 2010, he was interrogated in the Nizhny Novgorod police department, having previously tied a towing cable and forcing him to sit in Turkish for several hours. Employees demanded recognition in the preparation of the attack and the distribution of information, disgracing the honor and dignity of employees of the Center for Combating Extremism (ET Center). In the Nizhny Novgorod, bruises, bruises of the face and abdomen were recorded. According to him, among those who tried was Colonel Alexei Trifonov, the head of the local center "E".
Nizhny Novgorod Center for Combating Extremism is one of the most famous in Russia. His employees were accused of fabricating cases of terrorist groups and torture by detainees. It is curious that it was the Nizhny Novgorod Eshniki who were the first to light up in relations with provocateurs who attacked activists with Zelenka. Long before attacks on Navalny, Varlamov and other activists in different regions, this technology was tried in Nizhny Novgorod. There were suspicions of involvement in the attacks of the “eshniks” earlier, but the evidence was only indirect. However, the accounts in the social networks of Alexei Trifonov, which were studied by The Insider, testify to the fact that the colonel was most directly related to these provocations.
What is the famous Nizhny Novgorod Center "E"
Nizhny Novgorod Center for Combating Extremism is almost the most “productive” in Russia. In addition to the breakdown of concerts, mass arrests after permitted demonstrations and torture of the detainees, the Nizhny Novgorod Eshniki are known for a number of resonant affairs.
For example, in 2011, who came from different ends of the Leningrad region to Nizhny teenagers tried to set fire to the building of the deputy of the United Russia, but were stopped by the eschniks in the ambush. The Ashniki failed to find a man who, according to the case file, helped adolescents acquire the form of police officers, find components for Molotov cocktails and was present when trying to arson. The lawyer of the detainees is confident that this person is connected with the eshniks: “There is every reason to believe that they cover him. The investigation says that they cannot find him, although in the case there are his photos, a phone and address. Rather, the investigator asks the operatives of the EE center to find it, they say that they cannot. " At the same time, the detainees, according to the police themselves, allegedly planned the elimination of Trifonov.
In the same year, trade unions complained about the actions of the ED center, later searches were held with the Nizhny Novgorod anti -fascists. They found fake certificates of a non -existent organization and accused of overthrowing the state building. In 2013, anarchist Ilya Romanova exploded a homemade firecracker in a deserted park. The EE center immediately found a terrorist motive in his actions. The investigation proved this accusation with files allegedly discovered on Romanov’s computer. In the first file, there was an insult to officials written with errors, in the second - the release of the Nazi edition of the Aryan Terror. Journal of practical training of white terrorists. " Anarchist Romanov complained about the actions of the Ashnikov and claimed that the files were falsified by the investigation.
And here is what one of the arrested anti -fascists said - Albert Gainutdinov - about the methods of interrogations of the Nizhny Novgorod Eshniks, who poured a password from the mail: “At first, just through a pea jacket of piz **, on the abdomen, etc., and then the“ envelope made ”. The “envelope” is done as follows: a person is planted in Turkish, tilted forward and tied in a bent form. Two more pea jackets were laid on top and a greasy type of sat on their backs. I did not see who exactly sat down, but the operatives called his doctor pain. "The password then Albert Gainutdinov did not say. And I complained to the prosecutor’s office, which is in the same building of the building where he was tortured. The prosecutor's office did not even start.
According to the official characteristic from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Trifonov began to work in the police in 1994. Then he worked in the Criminal Police Service, and since 2003 in the Center “T”, the main task of which was called the fight against terrorism in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then the first accusations of abuse of authority began - first from the National Bolsheviks, Nationalists and Ecologists . In 2008, by decree of President Medvedev, the Center “E” was created, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of which was headed by Trifonov in 2010. The certificate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs claims that the colonel does not own special skills and “scientific titles”. It was also reported that in his free time the employee was engaged in the creation of sites for weddings on order.

Trifonov loves publicity: he participated in press conferences to “counteract terrorism” and “youth extremism ”, then classified extremists in a direct telephone line. “Channel One” organized a current show based on the case of arson of the deputy’s reception room. The news that the colonel was accused of non -payment of the transport tax and demanded the bailiffs to seize property on the TV channel, of course, did not appear.
Since the spring of 2016, Moscow policeman has been banned to transfer any data related to work. Messengers and social networks fell under the ban. In the summer of the same year, a law entered into force, obliging officials to inform employers with the addresses of sites that allow identifying their data. Despite such warnings, Trifonov still loves to “cut” on social networks with opposition, human rights activists and journalists, Nizhny Novgorod residents say that insider. Presumably, he uses accounts in social networks with the name Oper.nn , Oper_NN , and Operann . A man with the same nickname was registered at the Right News forum, where they talked to set fire to the reception room. Judging by the statistics , he is active before lunch, but also likes to be online at night.
In the comments on Facebook, Opernn refuses to recognize himself as the head of the Center “E”, but calls himself a police officer. On Twitter, an account with a nickname is registered, consonant with the name of the head of the Center “E” - Trifonov_av , which in turn is signed on the “operan” and retweet it. If the Opernn put Dukalis from the series “Streets of Broken Lights” on the avatar, then Trifonov_AV chose a city monument erected in the city center, which also loves and “Opernn” 
On Twitter, the colonel created three lists of activists read by him, among which the “pre -trial detention center” and “for liquidation” folders. In one of these lists, Nadezhda Tolokonnikov and Alexei Navalny appear, which will still be discussed below.
If on Twitter a colonel prefers to tease opposition and curse with human rights defenders, then on Instagram he loves to publish Fudporno more, and photos of business trips and vacations (Crimea, Abkhazia). Most of all, the colonel likes to photograph the car shops, historical reconstruction and fishing, which the Opernn makes on the 16-mm camera Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge on the Android system. Judging by the geotags, most records were made in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Here are photos of the 9-mm pistol Makarov and the head of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs Ivan Shaev, who led the department since 2010.
In 2016, the Moscow commission arrived in the region, which announced the unsatisfactory work of the Nizhny Novgorod police, after which Shaev filed a report, and Marta Putin fired him along with a dozen senior security officials.
The addiction to torture by Nizhny Novgorod policemen remains even after they leave their native region. Recently in Ingushetia, the court released from the pre -trial detention center under the house arrest of the accused of torture the deputy chief of the Ingush Center “E” Sergey Handogin, who began his career in Nizhny Novgorod. Trifonov was delighted with the liberation of his colleague:
The colonel can sometimes be caught on trifles. “Opernn” made a repost news from the website of the “Committee against torture”. Through the “Yandex.Metric”, human rights activists managed to find out what the user did, who entered the site with a host with the eloquent name Guvd.ttknn.net and has the Nizhny Novgorod IP 81.18.136.50. In the same address in 2011, there was a recording of activists conversations with employees of the police department.
However, trifons are not particularly hidden. For example, photos with oneself retweetics:
And in another photograph, he accidentally lit up in reflection:

The full version of this photo:
Trifonov has every reason to hide the connection with his accounts in social networks, as they may indicate his involvement in the crimes committed to them.
“Once an activist of“ other Russia ”was put on a bag on his head, taken to the forest and buried in an anthill. “Opernn” in real time broadcast the abduction on Twitter. After that, they opened a case of abduction and during the interrogation of Trifonov claimed that it was not his account, ”says Albert Kuznetsov, lawyer of the Consolidated Mobile Group. In 2012-13, Eshniki loved the whole team to arrange trolling in the style of the “Olginsky factory”, Kuznetsov recalls. Several political activists of the Nizhny said that Opernn is possible a general CPE account, and different employees write from it, since his Twitter is constantly online - he manages to preserve such activity since the time of the Living Journal.

In 2014, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina from the "Zone of Pravo" came to Nizhny to visit the IK-2 women's colony. Soon, people with St. George ribbons attacked them in the cafe opposite the station and doused the activists with green, as a result of which they diagnosed a concussion and eyes burn. “With confidence, we can talk about participating in the preparation or support of an attack by at least two employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Vasily Stepnov and Alexei Trifonov,” is approved on the website of the human rights organization. The attack occurred approximately at 7:25, and the message and photos taken at the scene of events appeared at Operann already at 8:09. (Later Trifonov deleted this photo).
Trifonov also lit up in many other provocations in Nizhny Novgorod related to the attack on the opposition. So, in 2017, presidential candidate Alexei Navalny went to Nizhny to open the election headquarters. There he was met by a hail of eggs, and the owner of the paid premises refused the fund for rent - as a result, Navalny met with voters on the street, and the Opernn closely followed his performance from the house opposite.
But Trifonov rejoices through the provocation against the Parnas party:
An even greater glee caused Trifonov an attack by provocateurs from Nod to Kasyanov in Nizhny Novgorod (he dedicated a dozen tweets to this event):
At the same time, the colonel friendly corresponded with the organizer of the provocation - Maria Katasonova. "Didn't you forget the cake?" He reminded her in front of the action. Nodovtsy really brought the cake, however, they failed to throw it to Kasyanov.
Attacks on activists in other regions are very likely to be coordinated with the center of “E” in a similar way - this is evidenced, for example, that the provocateurs always know where and when to look for their victims, the video cameras at the scene suddenly stop working, and the police themselves usually cannot be found (even when their individuals are easily established by activists). If all the “echniks” were also active in social networks, like Colonel Trifonov, we would know much more about this. Trifonov himself, despite the decision of the European Court, remains at large and position.